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January 25, 2016

The Sundance Festival is going all-in on tech this year

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Now in its 37th year, the Sundance Film Festival is no longer the unsullied celebration of indie film that it once was.

Blame the lure of filthy lucre, sure, but the ever-intrusive world of tech is also at fault. Indie film is no longer a matter of storytelling that sells. It’s also about using new tech – whether it’s a GoPro or drones – in the service of that story. Hell, one of last year’s breakout films at the festival, Tangerine, was shot entirely on an iPhone.

Here are just a few of the ways the tech world is repping at this year’s Sundance.

Everyone’s favorite German, Werner Herzog, is premiering his latest documentary Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World, commissioned by the cybersecurity firm NetScout, and featuring interviews with a number of tech visionaries, futurists, and hackers.